CVE-2005-3171

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Windows 2000 before Update Rollup 1 for SP4 records Event ID 1704 to indicate that Group Policy security settings were successfully updated, even when the processing fails such as when Ntuser.pol cannot be accessed, which could cause system administrators to believe that the system is compliant with the specified settings.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions

References

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884559
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900345
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884559
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900345

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